Radio Dismuke
1920s & 1930s Popular Music & Jazz
www.RadioDismuke.com

A service of Early 1900s Music Preservation

If you enjoy this recording help us spread the word that this wonderful, forgotten music exists by sharing this page with your friends.


 
Milt Shaw And His Detroiters  -  "It's An Old Spanish Custom In The Moonlight" - October 1930






Here is a recording of a catchy but mostly forgotten tune.  It is one of a number of recordings from the Depression era Melotone label that are in the process of being digitized for inclusion in the Radio Dismuke.  The song appears to have enjoyed more success in Great Britain than it did in the USA.  Indeed, the British pressing of this same recording was on the very first record issued by the Panachord label which was affiliated with Melotone and its parent label, Brunswick.

Milt Shaw led a popular band in the Detroit era that was formed in 1927 when Shaw took over a Philadelphia based band led by Frank Winegar and moved it to Michigan.




Melotone M 12020